orleans is discriminatory, but from washington, lawyers, it looks that way. >> neil: the same for arizona and the crackdown on illegals, or texas, requesting those who vote have proof they are who they say they are. these are not heinous issues. so, why is the white house jumping on to this? >> i don't know why they're jumping on to it. look at the facts on the ground. you have in texas, it's a voter i.d. law. supposedly going to turn away minorities from the states. if that what's idea of the republican legislature it was a horrible failure. black voters voted more and that's not true before the voter i.d. law. it's not having an effect. that's a fact that they state government can proceed when the federal government doesn't, and in arizona, the president said the border is secure, and the governor, jan brewer, laughed, says come down to tucson. we don't know how many illegals are coming across. so the president, i think part of it is the fatal conceit. this idea they can see everything from washington and they don't need the individualized knowledge of the ground that state governments